CDC Workshop on Applied Epidemiology and Environmental Health

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CDC Workshop on Applied Epidemiology and Environmental Health | July 18, 2023

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Overview

CDC’s Environmental Health (EH) Nexus hosted its second annual environmental epidemiology methods workshop “Applied Epidemiology and Environmental Health: Selected Study Designs and Applications for Causal Inference” on July 18, 2023. Subject matter experts from CDC, state and local health departments, and academia discussed innovative epidemiologic methods and how they can be applied to environmental health research and practice.

Audience 

The workshop is designed for epidemiologists, statisticians, biostatisticians, and other environmental health professionals at state, tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) public health agencies and environmental health organizations.

Presentations

Practical Considerations in Causal Inference

Sonja Swanson, ScD
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
University of Pittsburgh

Difference-in-Differences Studies

Neil Pearce, BSc, PhD, DSc
Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Regression Discontinuity and Interrupted Time Series Studies

Antonio Gasparrini, BSc Mbiol, MSc, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Application of Negative Controls to Identify Noncausal Associations

Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, Ph.D.
The Luddy Family President’s Distinguished Professor
Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Informatics
Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Science
University of Pennsylvania

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